Word: retail
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...Protection Agency and the Consumer Cooperative Bank. Labor he has opposed by voting to cut back the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and to deny black lung benefits to coal miners, food stamps to the families of strikers and extension of the minimum wage law to nearly a million retail and service employees. Labor also hasn't profitted from his votes against common-situs picketing and labor law reform...
...Retail stores have also been hit. In 1978 Sears, Roebuck and Co. lost $7 million on its credit operations, while J.C. Penney's ran $34 million in the red. Last year's losses were even higher. Reason: the companies, like banks, have to borrow the money they loan at a higher interest rate than they can charge...
There are some signs now that consumers are running out of the cash and credit to continue the buying binge. Retail sales dropped slightly in February, and installment debt in January made only a small increase. But fear is growing that when the long-delayed recession finally does hit, it will burst with far greater virulence than policymakers have been expecting...
...cans. Police believe the thieves were in the building for at least three or four hours and eventually escaped, obviously, by truck. Richard Andrews, the insurance investigator on the case, estimates that the gold and silver could be worth as much as $7 million on the retail market. If so, that would make the Miami robbery the biggest theft of precious metals in the nation's history...
...still have some image problems." Economically, Middletown appears to be in good condition. There was no mass exodus of frightened families. The local real estate market is about what it was and, reported an agent, would probably be a lot better if mortgage money were more readily available. Retail business in the community has actually improved, at least in part because of the influx of well-paid plant cleanup crews. "Sales have never been better," said Jack Baker, manager of a Middletown haberdashery. "There are a lot of people with $50 bills around town...